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MIDDLE EAST WAR
Quote:French police said they arrested a suspect early Saturday who allegedly tried to ignite a homemade explosive device outside a Bank of America building in Paris.
The incident has now prompted a counterterrorism investigation and raised questions about recruitment via social media apps after the suspect told police he was recruited on Snapchat, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The arrest occurred around 3:30 a.m. local time on Rue de la Boétie after officers intercepted a person placing a five-liter container believed to contain fuel and an ignition device that included approximately 1.5 pounds of explosive powder, the report said.
Authorities said a second individual fled the scene, while the arrested suspect claimed to be a minor of Senegalese nationality. Officials said they were still verifying the person’s identity.
The Context
Laurent Nuñez, France’s interior minister, on Saturday praised the rapid police response and referenced the broader international context of threats against U.S.- and Israeli-linked assets since the outbreak of the Iran war that began late last month, highlighting the government’s emphasis on vigilance.
Earlier this week, Nuñez said French authorities have increased personal protection of some figures from the Iranian opposition and stepped-up security around sites that could be a target, including sites linked to U.S. interests and to the Jewish community, the Associated Press reported.
What To Know
Police detained the suspect as he allegedly attempted to ignite the device with a lighter in front of a Bank of America building on Rue de la Boétie, near the Champs-Élysées in Paris’ 8th arrondissement, according to police sources cited by AFP.
Initial assessments indicated the ignition component contained about 1.5 pounds of explosive powder and the container held a little over a gallon of liquid believed to be fuel. The device was taken by authorities for further forensic analysis, RFI reported.
The suspect told police he was recruited via Snapchat and offered money to carry out the attack, with reported amounts varying between €300 ($346) and €600 (about $692), according to multiple outlets, citing police sources.
A second person fled the scene, and one account said the accomplice appeared to step back to take a photo or video during the device placement, reports said.
France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said it opened an investigation into attempted damage by fire or dangerous means in connection with a terrorist enterprise, manufacturing incendiary or explosive devices, and terrorist criminal conspiracy, and confirmed the suspect was in custody, according to AFP.
A Bank of America spokesperson said the company was aware of the situation and is in communication with French authorities, the outlet reported.
Quote:Three Chinese ships, including two owned by China’s biggest shipping company, were turned away from the Strait of Hormuz on Friday after attempting to exit the Persian Gulf, ship-tracking data showed.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, said later in a statement that the strait was shut, directly contradicting an earlier claim by President Donald Trump that Tehran had agreed to let some ships through.
The CSCL Indian Ocean and the CSCL Arctic Ocean, two Hong Kong-flagged container ships belonging to a unit of China’s COSCO Shipping, had identified themselves as Chinese-owned and -crewed while sailing toward the waters between Larak and Qeshm islands, where Iran has been running an unofficial “toll booth” for pre-approved ships.
Both ships made abrupt U-turns near the passage at approximately 3:20 a.m. and 3:50 a.m. universal coordinated time, according to the ship-tracking service MarineTraffic, which captured signals transmitted by the vessels’ automatic identification system, or AIS.
It was COSCO’s first attempt to send ships through the strait since the company resumed bookings for Middle East-bound containers this week, “indicating that safe passage could not be guaranteed,” MarineTraffic said.
“This marks the first attempted crossing by a major container carrier since the start of the conflict,” it said. COSCO, the world’s fourth-largest shipping line, handles about 10 percent of the world’s seaborne freight.
A third ship, the Marshall Islands-flagged, Hong Kong-owned bulk carrier Lotus Rising, also turned back from the strait in the early hours of Friday while broadcasting its destination as “China owner,” its AIS data showed.
All three vessels remain in the gulf, west of Hormuz, where COSCO has at least six crude oil tankers stuck in the waters, according to Bloomberg.
Shanghai-based COSCO could not be reached for comment after hours.
Quote:About 1,500 Iranians were intercepted at the border during the Biden Administration, but it’s the unknown number who got through that is alarming officials — who told The Post “sleeper cells” are a grave potential threat to the nation.
“We have no idea how many people got around obviously. The numbers are deeply concerning,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who previously served as US ambassador to Japan during the first Trump administration.
About half of the intercepted Iranians were released into the country, Hagerty said, apparently referencing a Fox News report last year that 1,504 Iranians were arrested at the border between 2021 and 2024, with 700 released into the country pending court cases.
The US has long listed Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
The number of Iranians intercepted at the border grew to 1,650 between 2022 and 2025, according to Customs and Border Patrol data cited by the nonpartisan Niskanen Center. Many flew through Sao Paolo, Brazil, a “hub” for passport fraud.
Hagerty’s comments came after the feds sent out a security alert warning of a possible effort by Iran to direct “prepositioned sleeper assets,” even as much of its top leadership has been wiped out through relentless US and Israeli air attacks.
The caution raised fears that Iran, which has continued to hammer its Gulf neighbors and whose retaliation has led to the deaths of at least 13 American service members, could find a way to strike on the home front.
President Trump acknowledged the concerns March 11.
“A lot of people came in through Biden with his stupid open border, but we know where most of them are: We’ve got our eye on all of them, I think,” he said.
Homeland security concerns rose even higher when a deranged Lebanese American man slammed a car packed with explosives into a synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and an ISIS-linked gunman opened fire at Old Dominion University in Virginia, killing an ROTC instructor.
FBI Director Kash Patel and CIA Director John Ratcliffe also met with Republican senators in the Capitol this month to discuss expiring federal surveillance authority, as security fears at home intensify.
Quote:Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi warned a crowd at CPAC Saturday not to leave any faction of Iran’s current regime in power.
“You cannot reform a snake. Venom is in its DNA,” Pahlavi, 65, told cheering supporters at the annual conservative gathering held in Grapevine, Texas this year.
The son of the shah of Iran, who was overthrown during the 1979 revolution that brought the Islamic Republic to power, Pahlavi said the people of Iran “will never agree to swap one tyrant for another.”
He spoke as the joint US-Israeli war on Iran — that launched with a Feb. 28 strike that took out former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of the country’s top leaders — entered its fifth week.
President Trump, who extended a deadline for Tehran to re-open the Strait of Hormuz or risk massive bombing of its power plants, has said negotiations are underway with the Iranians on finding a way to end the conflict.
At the outset of the war, Trump urged Iranians to “take over your government.”
He has also ridiculed Iran’s new hardline supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamanei, who has not been seen in public since coming to power after his father’s killing — with the president labeling him a “lightweight.”
Trump has also said that he wants a hand in picking Tehran’s next leader. The State Department has placed a $10 million bounty on the younger Khamenei and other senior regime officials.
Pahlavi, who lives in the US, told the enthusiastic CPAC crowd that “another anti-American tyrant will not serve American interests either.” He said if such a faction of the repressive regime were to linger it would “buy time” and “pretend to negotiate” before returning to its “jihadist ways of threatening America.”
“Life can never go back to normal,” he said.
There is a sea of blood between the people and the regime. After all the massacres, after all they have sacrificed, they will never agree to swap one tyrant for another.”
UKRAINE WAR
Quote:Please, sir, can he have some more?
Russian President Vladimir Putin is going hat-in-hand to wealthy oligarchs, asking them to donate cold hard cash to boost the country’s depleted economy during its war in Ukraine.
Putin made the embarrassing request before a large group of Russia’s financial elite on Thursday — and promised to keep the war going until victory is reached despite the economic strain it’s caused, sources familiar with the meeting told the Financial Times.
It’s the latest shakedown by Putin to get Russia’s wealthiest to foot the bill for the war in Ukraine, now in its fifth year — but the first time he’s appealed to business magnates directly.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied reports that the donations would be spent on the war, although he told Russian news outlets the idea was discussed and Putin “welcomed the initiative.”
“One of the participants of the meeting indeed said that he finds it necessary to set aside a certain very large sum of money for the state. This was his family decision,” Peskov said, according to Interfax.
The unnamed tycoon “argued that the vast majority of participants in the meeting started their businesses in the 1990s, and got their start with some or other connection to the state. So many consider it their burden to make such contributions,” he added.
Putin asking directly for funds essentially guarantees that the businessmen, who are largely supporters of the military campaign in Ukraine, will fork over money to his government, according to the Financial Times.
At least two businessmen told Putin they would be happy to donate, including billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, who pledged more than $1.2 billion, sources told the outlet.
Russia’s economy defense budget soared 42% last year as the ruble value plummeted.
Quote:A wave of Russian drone strikes brought “pure terror” to Ukraine overnight into Saturday, destroying a maternity hospital and leaving four dead and more than a dozen others wounded.
Moscow launched over 270 drones at targets across Ukraine and pounded civilian infrastructure primarily in the city of Odesa, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.
Odesa, a southern port city, was swarmed by over 60 drones, and a child was among those injured in the strikes, Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky said.
“There was no military purpose whatsoever – this was pure terror against ordinary civilian life. … Each such strike proves that Russia does not want to end the war,” Zelensky said about the conflict that has now raged for over four years.
The roof of the maternity hospital was blown apart by the blast, along with connecting structures between two floors and multiple wards.
Medics were able to save 22 newborn babies, including twins on ventillator support along with 32 other patients who were evacuated from the Odesa hospital into a shelter, the hospital’s chief doctor Ihor Shpak said.
Two were killed, and at least 13 wounded in the strikes on Odesa, military administration chief Sergiy Lysak said.
Images posted by Zelensky on Telegram show Ukrainian firefighters trying to extinguish blazes in bombed-out residential buildings surrounded by rubble and debris from broken windows.
A Russian strike on Ukrainian gas production facilities killed a 55-year-old energy worker, energy company Naftogaz said.
A 28-year-old man was also killed in a Russian strike on a residential building in the city of Kryvyi Rih.
Quote:The three Baltic NATO nations have issued an "urgent" warning to the alliance following repeated drone incursions into their airspace in recent days.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia said on Friday the breaches "highlight the urgent need to continue enhancing our preparedness and investing in defense capabilities."
It comes after Latvia and Estonia said earlier this week Ukrainian drones strayed into their airspace from Russia amid the ongoing war.
Latvian officials said the wreckage of a drone had been found near its borders with Russia and Belarus. Separately, Estonian authorities said a drone hit the chimney of a power plant near its border with Moscow. No injuries were reported.
Why It Matters
Repeated incursions by Russian drones and fighter jets into NATO airspace have increased fears of Moscow's war spreading beyond Ukraine's borders.
Under the alliance's founding treaty, its members are collectively obliged to treat attacks on any member state as an assault on the whole alliance. This acts a key part of its deterrence to adversary nations.
What To Know
Following this week's drone incursions, the Baltic defense ministers praised NATO's Air Policing mission, which aims to maintain the security of the alliance's airspace. But they said the incidents highlighted the "importance to further strengthen multi-layered air defense."
"While NATO's mission Eastern Sentry has clearly demonstrated its value, NATO's efforts to strengthen air defense, including countering drones, must be accelerated," the ministers said in a joint statement.
"Allies must urgently reinforce the capabilities required for effective detection and interception. The current presence of NATO aircraft and air defense systems in the Baltic states must be maintained and further strengthened to counter all air threats, including unmanned aerial vehicles."
They added the Baltic nations are investing at least 5 percent of their GDP on defense, prioritizing the procurement of air defense capabilities, and the development of anti-drone systems and acoustic sensors.
On Wednesday, Egils Leščinskis, Latvia's deputy chief of the Joint Staff, said the Ukrainian drone "most likely veered off course or was affected by electromagnetic warfare measures protecting some technically important objects." The defense ministers said an investigation into the incident was ongoing.
Meanwhile on Thursday, debris from a Russian drone used to attack Ukraine landed in NATO nation Romania, the country's ministry of national defense said.
Two F-16 fighter jets took off from the 86th Air Base in Borcea at 00.16 a.m. local time to monitor the situation, it said.
The ministry added one drone was diverted by Ukrainian air defenses and entered Romanian airspace, before crashing about 1.2 miles from the town of Parches in an uninhabited area.
Separately, fellow NATO nation Poland announced on Tuesday it had launched an air operation aimed at preventing Russian drone incursions in its airspace.
Poland's Operational Command of the Armed Forces wrote on X it had "activated the necessary forces and resources" to tackle the Shahed-type drones, including fighter jets and helicopters.
Quote:Multiple drones crossed into NATO member Finland, officials said on Sunday, the latest in a spate of uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) incidents hitting the alliance's eastern flank.
One drone landed north of the southeastern Finnish city of Kouvola, while another landed east of the area, according to Helsinki's Defense Ministry.
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania—all NATO members—said in recent days that several Ukrainian drones had careened into their territory during intensified attacks on Russian oil and gas facilities perched on the Baltic Sea.
Kouvola sits roughly 45 miles west of Russian territory. Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Moscow's fuel export sites in the country's western Leningrad region, which borders Finland, including the major port of Ust-Luga.
Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko said early on Sunday 36 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted over the region and emergency services were putting at a fire at Ust Luga.
Finnish officials have not said where the drones came from, nor who launched the UAVs.
Ukraine's military had not commented at the time of writing on Sunday, but Kyiv has vowed to continue targeting Moscow's oil and gas facilities that provide vital funds for its war effort.
"Drones have strayed into Finnish territory. We are taking the matter very seriously," Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen said in a statement on Sunday.
Authorities described the drones as small, flying low and traveling slowly. Helsinki said the country would release more information as investigations progress.
Ukrainian drones sparked a blaze at the Ust-Luga port on Wednesday, from which Russia ships out crude oil and liquefied natural gas out to the Baltic. The site also handles general cargo and other exports propping up Russia's economy.
During the Ukrainian drone attack earlier this week, one drone hit the chimney of a power plant in eastern Estonia. Another crashed and exploded in neighboring Latvia.
Kyiv said it had attacked the Ust-Luga port area in August 2025.
Ukraine's military separately said it had struck an oil terminal at Primorsk, about 30 miles from Finnish soil, and another refinery east of Moscow early on March 23. A fire broke at Primorsk, which sees roughly 60 million tons of oil each year, Kyiv said.
USA
Quote:The Tucson Police Department in Arizona has said it arrested former Pima County Sheriff’s deputy Travis Reynolds, 22, on one count of kidnapping tied to alleged on-duty misconduct in the department confirmed to Fox News Digital.
The Context
The arrest of a former deputy on a kidnapping charge comes as Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos faces a no-confidence vote and mounting scrutiny over the department’s handling of a separate case—the search for 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie, missing mother of Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie.
What To Know
The Tucson Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that Reynolds was taken into custody and charged with kidnapping, adding that the investigation remains active and declining to release more details.
Reynolds was fired by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department—which has been investigating Guthrie’s disappearance—following his arrest, the outlet reported.
The department reportedly declined to comment to Fox News digital on whether Reynolds had any role in Guthrie’s case before he was terminated.
According to an interim complaint reported by Tucson news outlet KOLD, Reynolds allegedly commented on a female detainee’s appearance, shared a vape pen with her while she remained handcuffed, and suggested going to a hotel to have sex.
The complaint alleges that Reynolds showed the detainee sexually explicit videos, and also says he instructed the alleged victim to expose herself before taking her into the jail, according to KOLD. It also reported that jail surveillance video corroborated parts of the incident account.
Reynolds' defense attorney said he has no prior criminal history and is a lifelong Arizona resident, per Fox News Digital.
Newsweek contacted the Pima County Sheriff’s Department and Tucson Police Department for comment via email early on Sunday.
Quote:Nearly two months after Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona-area home, a former Pima County sheriff is accusing current Sheriff Chris Nanos of mishandling the crime scene—as Nanos simultaneously faces a no-confidence vote, a recall effort, and scrutiny over his disciplinary past.
Newsweek reached out to Nanos via an email to the sheriff's department on Saturday for comment.
The Context
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen at her home outside Tucson, Arizona, on January 31 and reported missing on February 1. Authorities believe the 84-year-old was kidnapped, and that drops of her blood were found on her front porch.
Last month, the FBI released surveillance footage from a doorbell camera, showing a masked man, whom they called a suspect, outside Guthrie's front door on the night she disappeared. But since then, investigators have not identified a suspect or provided the public with information about any significant breakthroughs in the case.
What To Know
In a Friday episode of NewsNation's Brian Entin Investigates, Dr. Richard Carmona—a former U.S. surgeon general and former Pima County sheriff—told senior national correspondent Brian Entin that Nanos made a fundamental error by personally announcing the reopening of the crime scene at Nancy Guthrie's Catalina Foothills home.
"That's not something a sheriff does," Carmona said. "It's the lead detective that's out there that says, we can open this area now because we have made this determination that all of the evidence necessary has been photographed, bagged, tagged, and so on."
Carmona also pointed to a February incident in which a Domino's delivery driver—fulfilling an order placed by a viewer for an independent journalist at the scene—walked across Guthrie's front lawn and up to the front door during an active investigation. Deputies on scene did not intervene.
"If you're going to court and you're making a case, a defense attorney says, 'That crime scene was corrupted—you had people delivering pizzas,'" Carmona said. "'How do we know this is real evidence?'"
He was unsparing on the question of reconstituting the scene after the fact. "Once it has been corrupted, that's the end of it," he said. "You have not maintained the integrity of that space."
Carmona added: "The public has to have trust in its law enforcement agency. You cannot lead without trust. And when you have a sheriff that has to keep correcting himself and changing his story every day, the public loses faith in you."
Separately, the Pima County Deputies Organization (PCDO), which represents more than 300 sheriff's department members, unanimously passed a no-confidence vote against Nanos on March 24, calling for his immediate resignation.
The vote followed reporting by The Arizona Republic that Nanos had resigned from the El Paso Police Department in 1982— two years earlier than listed on his public resume—to avoid termination over disciplinary issues including excessive force, insubordination and off-duty gambling. The sheriff's department attributed the discrepancy to "clerical errors."
On Tuesday, the Pima County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to compel Nanos to answer questions under oath, citing a territorial-era state law that could allow for his removal if he fails to comply.
Quote:The FBI responded to Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport after an American Airlines flight was diverted on Sunday, authorities confirmed to Newsweek.
The diversion was prompted by a "disruptive customer," a spokesperson for the airline said in an emailed statement, adding that customers were deplaned as law enforcement responded to the aircraft.
Personnel from the Michigan FBI were also on the scene, a spokesperson from the agency confirmed, adding there is "no current threat to the public at this time."
More information on the nature of the disturbance was not immediately available and no arrests or charges were announced by authorities.
The Context
The diversion affected passengers traveling on a major corridor between New York and Chicago and prompted a federal law enforcement response at one of the nation’s busiest Midwestern hubs during the peak spring break travel season.
The incident occurred amid heightened scrutiny at U.S. airports following the deadly crash at LaGuardia Airport in New York last week and ongoing issues with security wait times for travelers amid a pay stoppage for Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents amid a partial government shutdown.
What To Know
American Airlines Flight 2819 departed New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport at 8:59 a.m. Eastern and landed at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport in Romulus at 11:08 a.m., flight-tracking data showed. It was bound for O'Hare International Airport.
The FBI and Wayne County Airport Authority Police met the aircraft on the tarmac and isolated it per airport procedure.
Once deplaned, passengers waited in the terminal while authorities completed and later cleared a search of the aircraft out of an abundance of caution, officials said.
An American Airlines spokesperson said the diversion was due to a “disruptive customer” but did not immediately release additional details about what occurred on board.
The FBI’s Detroit field office said there was “no current threat to the public,” and local officials indicated airport operations continued while the investigation proceeded.
Quote:Part 1 of a five-part Fox News Digital series investigation follows the money that created the "Revolutionary Base" for a transnational network of organizations allegedly waging cognitive warfare on U.S. citizens on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
As far-left American activists flood Cuba to support its flailing communist regime, U.S. officials have opened a sprawling investigation into an anti-America, pro-China nonprofit network forged during a wedding celebration in late February 2017, off Runaway Bay on Jamaica’s northern coast.
There, beneath a canopy of palm trees, an elite cadre of activists, intellectuals, celebrities, political organizers and comrades in a global Marxist-Leninist-Maoist movement assembled to celebrate the "Revolutionary Love" of two luminaries, both 62 at the time: Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai, and Jodie Evans, a red-haired veteran activist and co-founder of CodePink Women for Peace.
Like the opening scene of "The Godfather," where powerful families consolidate power, the wedding celebration was about much more than the union of two people.
Over four days of dancing, lectures and late-night conversations in venues from the Flavor Beach Bar to Sharkey’s Seafood, celebrating the bond of "Roy and Jodie," alliances were formed that would shape protests, unrest and political agitation over the next decade, from the fiery 2020 scenes in Minneapolis to demonstrations today supporting the regimes in Cuba and Iran.
That weekend, Vijay Prashad, an academic described in the official wedding itinerary as a "Marxist intellectual," spoke on a panel, "The Future of the Left." Medea Benjamin, Evans’ friend and CodePink co-founder, danced barefoot at the wedding in a bright Indian outfit.
Mao’s Blueprint for the ‘People’s War’
According to sources, the wedding attendees invoked the teachings of Mao Zedong, the 20th century Chinese Communist Party leader who ruled China with an iron fist, inspired by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and they discussed how to mobilize the masses to wage a Maoist "People’s War."
"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses," Mao said in 1934.
Many were themselves relics of the Cold War, growing up before the Soviet Union was dismantled in 1989.
A monthslong Fox News Digital investigation pinpoints the Jamaica wedding as a starting point for launching a network of organizations that is today waging a new "People’s War" on America, aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s geopolitical ambitions to eclipse the U.S. as a superpower through economic programs like the "Belt and Road" initiative, realizing the vision of China’s ideological godfather, Mao, through trade partnerships, economic deals and pro-China propaganda.
National security experts call it cognitive warfare.
Over almost a decade, Fox News Digital has learned, Singham and Evans have activated a global network that now numbers an estimated 2,000 hard-left organizations that parrot anti-U.S. propaganda supporting autocratic regimes leading China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza. Within activist circles, far-left critics refer to leftists who align with authoritarian regimes as "tankies." Many groups and leaders from Singham's network, including Evans and Benjamin, are part of the pro-communist convoy now in Cuba.
Fox News Digital has established a documented $278 million that flowed from Singham into organizations that "sow discord" in the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith put it recently at a hearing on foreign malign influence in the nonprofit industry.
According to the data, Singham created a base from which the U.S. is now one of the world’s most prolific exporters of radical pro-China communist ideology. Singham and Evans didn't respond to requests for comment.
Quote:he wealthy Marxist businessman behind a sprawling far-left network is collaborating with the Chinese Communist Party to denigrate the Allied actions in World War II in an effort to upend the U.S.-led international system and to advance Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s “new world order.”
China-based businessman Neville Roy Singham leads and funds a global financial and activist network that operates inside the U.S. and many other countries, and while he rarely grabs the spotlight for himself in public speeches, he did so in November through the release of a report that denigrates U.S. and Allied Power contributions to WWII.
Singham directly admitted during a CCP-backed forum in Shanghai in November that he had written the 174-page report to combat the U.S.-backed “international rules-based order” — which he called a “lie” — and to help the CCP and its longtime strongman Xi achieve a “new world order” more favorable to China.
Singham: “Fascism was defeated not by Anglo-American capital but by socialist leadership and mass heroism”
The wealthy communist activist summed up the crux of his WWII argument thusly: “As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the World Anti-Fascist War (WAFW), the Western powers spin their familiar tale: U.S. industrial might and British resolve saved the world from fascism. This is a lie. The truth burns in the numbers: while the Western powers calculated their economic advantage, the Soviet and Chinese peoples paid in blood. Fascism was defeated not by Anglo-American capital but by socialist leadership and mass heroism – a brilliant strategy from Moscow and Yan’an, unbreakable resilience from workers and peasants who refused to surrender, and a sacrifice that saved humanity from slavery.”
To back up Singham’s revisionist historical efforts — which he dubbed “restorationist” — he sought to excuse Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin’s alliance with Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler which carved up swaths of Eastern Europe, to claim that Hitler and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were morally equivalent.
Singham ignored the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, signed August 23, 1939, a non-aggression treaty between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that secretly divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. That deal facilitated the German invasion of Poland less than a month later on September 1, 1939, and a subsequent Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, enabling both powers to seize surrounding territory.
Just the News has previously reported on how numerous far-left radical activist groups have leadership links or financial ties to the funding network backed by Singham, who himself is linked to the CCP and whom some in his network call “Comrade” — and who has also been scrutinized by Republican congressional investigators.
Singham did not respond to a request for comment sent by Just the News through his wife Jodie Evans, the co-founder of Code Pink.
Singham excuses Stalin over “necessary” alliance with Hitler
Singham also sought to excuse Stalin’s non-aggression treaty with Hitler, despite the fact that the Hitler-Stalin Pact allowed the Nazis and the Soviets to divide up large swaths of Eastern Europe between themselves.
History.com noted that “the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact contained a secret protocol specifying the spheres of influence in Eastern Europe both parties would accept after Hitler conquered Poland” and that “the Soviet Union would acquire the eastern half of Poland, along with Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.”
Singham wrote that “facing isolation, Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 — not from choice but from necessity created by Western collusion with Hitler.” This is a common trope from Soviet apologists.
Historian Roger Moorhouse wrote in his book, The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941, that the Hitler-Stalin Pact “was in force for less than two years, ending with Hitler’s attack on Stalin’s Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 — but it was nonetheless one of the salient events of World War II.”
“This aspect of Soviet belligerence is more than just a curiosity. Postwar writing on the Nazi-Soviet Pact such that there is long tended to parrot the Kremlin’s postwar exculpatory line that Stalin was merely buying time by signing the pact, fending Hitler off while he could prepare Soviet defenses to meet an expected attack. This interpretation, still hawked by communist apologists to this day, does not tally with the evidence, however,” the historian wrote. “As this book shows, Stalin was much more proactive and anti-Western in signing the pact than has conventionally been appreciated. His motivations were complex, of course, but on one level at least, he was seeking to exploit Nazi aggression to his own ends, to speed the fall of the West and capitalism’s long-awaited collapse. An unwilling or passive ‘neutral,’ he was not.”
Xi’s “new world order” requires “restorationist” anti-Western view of WWII
Singham made it clear last November when introducing his anti-American report that changing how the world views the history of WWII was key to the CCP’s and Xi’s efforts to change the globe’s power dynamics and to end American dominance, as he labeled the modern West as fascist.
Quote:Far-left “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) violated federal election and House ethics rules by misusing nearly $19,000 in campaign cash last year on a shrink who specializes in controversial ketamine therapy, a bombshell new complaint claims.
DC-based National Legal and Policy Center filed a joint complaint Friday with the Federal Elections Commission and the Office of Congressional Conduct, demanding both enforcement agencies probe Ocasio-Cortez, her congressional campaign committee and its treasurer, Frank Llewellyn.
The government watchdog group want authorities to determine whether the money paid to Boston-based Dr. Brian Boyle was fraudulently documented in official filings as “leadership training and consulting.”
The complaint was filed in response to an exclusive Post story last week that revealed the suspicious shrink spending.
“There is reason to believe that AOC’s use of campaign funds to pay for a psychiatrist who has no experience in ‘leadership training’ was not for a ‘bona fide campaign or political purpose,’ but rather for personal psychiatric therapy for AOC or her campaign staff,” the group’s counsel Paul Kamenar, wrote in the complaint.
Using congressional campaign funds for personal use is prohibited by law, and violators face fines and up to five years in prison. They could also be forced to reimburse their campaign fund out of pocket for any misspent money.
The NLPC requested the commission “impose appropriate penalties and disciplinary sanctions against AOC.”
The group also asked the Office of Congressional Conduct, or OCC, to refer the matter to the House Ethics Committee, which unlike the OCC, can issue subpoenas to witnesses and impose disciplinary action against the socialist lawmaker.
AOC has previously talked about her own mental health, claiming she was in therapy following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, when she said lawmakers effectively “served in war.”
Quote:President Donald Trump said “Cuba is next” during a speech at an investment forum in Miami on Friday, raising fresh concerns about potential U.S. action against the island nation.
The remark came as Trump highlighted what he described as successful military operations in Venezuela and Iran, though he offered no clear details on what his statement meant in practice.
Newsweek contacted the White House via an online form and Cuba's defense department by email on Saturday for comment.
Why It Matters
Trump’s comments signal a possible escalation in U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba at a time of heightened global tensions. The administration has already taken aggressive steps in several other countries, and even vague suggestions of military involvement could increase instability in the region and strain diplomatic efforts currently underway.
What to Know
Speaking in Miami, as reported by Reuters and Al Jazeera, Trump praised the strength of the U.S. military and suggested it may need to be used despite earlier hopes it would not. He then added that Cuba could be next, before quickly downplaying the remark. He did not outline any specific plan for the country.
Trump told the audience he had built a powerful military that he hoped would not need to be used, but added that “sometimes you have to use it,” before stating that Cuba is next and then urging listeners to “pretend I didn’t say that.”
Trump has repeatedly argued that Cuba’s government is close to collapse amid a deepening economic crisis. The country has been struggling with severe fuel shortages and economic disruption, in part due to the loss of oil shipments from Venezuela following the removal of former leader Nicolás Maduro.
At the same time, the Trump administration has opened talks with Cuban officials in recent weeks. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel has confirmed negotiations are taking place in an effort to avoid a potential confrontation.
Earlier this month, Trump also suggested Cuba could face a “friendly takeover,” before adding that it might not be friendly, underscoring the ambiguity surrounding U.S. intentions.
Díaz-Canel, meanwhile, has acknowledged ongoing discussions with Washington, emphasizing efforts to prevent escalation as Cuba faces mounting economic pressure.
Quote:WASHINGTON — A security scare at Palm Beach International Airport Sunday prompted the Air Force to scramble F-16 fighter jets and deploy flares — hours before Air Force One was slated to fly President Trump back to DC.
Authorities imposed a ground stop at the airport as they rushed to confront the civilian aircraft.
The White House said that the security scare took place after authorities lost communication with a general aviation plane.
“The civilian aircraft violated the Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) at approximately 1:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The aircraft was safely escorted out of the area by NORAD aircraft,” the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service explained in a statement shared by the North American Aerospace Defense Command — which controls the airspace over the US and Canada.
“The flares were used to draw attention from or communicate with the pilot. Flares are employed with the highest regard for safety, burn out quickly and completely, and pose no danger to people on the ground.”
The White House and Secret Service said that neither Air Force One nor Trump was in danger.
“A general aviation aircraft was briefly out of communication with the air traffic control tower at Palm Beach International Airport, but contact was ultimately established and the ground stop was lifted,” a White House official told The Post.
“There was no drone incursion or concern regarding Air Force One, which is not slated to take off until this evening.”The president was at Trump International Golf Course during the time of the security incident at Palm Beach International Airport.
Initial reports suggested that some sort of drone incursion at the airport triggered the ground stop, with footage showing a Delta pilot informing passengers of the security scare.
The pilot claimed that “they had to scramble some helicopters to go and investigate” the situation.
A Secret Service spokesperson said that the helicopter seen taking off was likely not related to the security scare.
“While airspace violations are relatively common, particularly outside of Washington, DC, that helicopter referenced in the tweet was actually authorized for that specific area and was not related to a drone or Temporary Flight Restriction, TFR, violation,” the spokesperson said.
When asked for comment about the ordeal, the Federal Aviation Administration told The Post that “Operations are normal after the FAA slowed traffic at Palm Beach International Airport due to volume,” but declined to give an on-the-record explanation about the ground stop.
EUROPE
Quote:Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has submitted her government's resignation after her left-wing coalition fell short of securing enough seats to form a government in Tuesday's election.
Her move will kick off negotiations on Wednesday to determine whether the next government will be formed by Frederiksen or another party leader.
Frederiksen's Social Democrats party won the most votes and secured only 38 seats in the country's 179-seat parliament, marking the party's worst result since 1903. The left-leaning "red bloc" won a total of 84 seats, six short of the 90 needed for a majority. Meanwhile, the right-leaning "blue bloc" won 77 seats.
Frederiksen has been a firm opponent of President Donald Trump following his calls to take control of Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark. Approval ratings for Frederiksen's former government surged in response to Trump's actions, and the timing of the snap election was seen as a way for it to capitalize on the swell of support.
Frederiksen is viewed favorably by the EU for her stance on Greenland and efforts to increase Denmark's defence spending considering the security threat posed by Russia. In January, she warned that if President Donald Trump could enact a takeover of Greenland, that would in essence end NATO.
But domestically, some of her left-wing supporters in Denmark were frustrated with her tough immigration policy and others had concerns about his position on economic issues.
Support for the anti-immigration Danish People's Party, led by Morten Messerschmidt, surged to 9.1 percent, up nearly 7 percentage points compared with the last election.
Quote:European Union (EU) lawmakers recently approved measures enabling member states to deport rejected asylum-seekers to offshore “return hubs,” the Associated Press reported on Sunday.
The move aligns closely with tactics praised by right-wing parties and echoing enforcement approaches associated with the Trump's administration's mass deportation efforts of illegal immigrants.
Newsweek reached out to the European Union by email Sunday for comment.
Why It Matters
Countries including Russia, China, Venezuela, and Afghanistan are just some of those the U.S. has been unable to repatriate immigrants to, meaning they are often stuck in ICE detention.
Over the past 14 months, the Trump administration has struck multiple deals with countries in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America, at times in exchange for other benefits. Some agreements have seen legal challenges over conditions that the roughly 300 immigrants deported under the program have faced.
The union's plan marked a significant shift in Europe’s migration enforcement, enabling deportations to facilities outside the EU and expanding detention and entry-ban powers at a time when only about one in five people ordered to leave are actually returned.
Human rights organizations warned the hubs risked becoming “legal black holes” beyond effective EU oversight and compared the package to “ICE-style” enforcement seen in the U.S., intensifying a transatlantic debate over deterrence versus protection in asylum systems.
What To Know
Members of the European Parliament (MEP) voted 389-206, with 32 abstentions, to ease the creation of detention facilities outside EU territory and increase penalties and entry bans for migrants who refuse to leave, while authorizing returns to third countries under bilateral deals, according to AP.
Any EU nation can now negotiate on its own or in small coalitions to deport migrants to facilities yet to be built outside the 27-nation bloc.
The vote came as part of the EU’s broader Pact on Migration and Asylum, with new rules set to take effect June 12, and as far-right and conservative parties pushed for higher return rates and tougher border enforcement.
The European Parliament’s version backed detention for up to 24 months for people awaiting return and endorsed tougher, potentially indefinite entry bans in some cases, while positioning the regulation as a cornerstone of efforts to increase returns, according to Agence France-Presse.
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